1951

Born in Iwate

1975

Graduated from Tokyo Zokei University (Sculpture course)

1977

Completed Master Course at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (Sculpture course)

1986

Stayed in London under a grant from the Agency for Cultural Affairs (-'87)

1995

Awarded the 26th Nakahara Teijiro Excellence Prize

1997

Awarded the 18th Hirakushi Denchu Prize

2003

Awarded the 33rd Nakahara Teijiro Prize

2009

The 50th Mainichi Art Award
The 59th The Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's Art Encouragement Prize

2011

Awarded the Medal with Purple Ribbon

1982

Gallery Okabe, Tokyo

1985

Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo ('88,'90,'91,'93,'95,'96,'01,'02,'06,'08,'10)

1989

COMME des GARÇONS, Tokyo
Arnold Herstand, New York

1991

Annely Juda Fine Art, London ('96,'99,'11)

1993

Today's Artists Vー'93 Sakakura Shinpei / Funakoshi Katsura, The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura

1994

Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco
André Emmerich Gallery, New York

1997

Exhibition of the 18th Hirakushi Denchu Prize, Ibara Municipal Denchu Art Museum, Okayama

2000

Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Germany
Städtische Museen Heilbronn, Germany

2003

Katsura Funakoshi Works: 1980-2003, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts; Hokkaido Asahikawa Museum of Art; Takamatsu City Museum of Art; Iwate Museum of Art; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art (-'04)
Katsura Funakoshi Prints 1987-2002, Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo

2005

Katsura Funakoshi - Ernst Barlach: A Map of the Time, Annely Juda Fine Art, London; Ernst Barlach Haus, Humburg, Germany
For Deep Line (Drawings), Tokyo Zokei University Gallery

2006

Cité du Livre, Aix-en-Provence, France

2007

Katsura Funakoshi, Speaking to His Own Face, Listening to the Faces of Others, Tohoku University of Art & Design, Yamagata

2008

Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York
Summer Villa: The Sculptures, Drawings, and Prints of Katsura Funakoshi in Art Deco Space, Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum
ANDO GALLERY, Tokyo

2010

Katsura Funakoshi 2010 in Kumamoto, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto

2011

Katsura Funakoshi Works, Kami City Art Museum, Kochi

2012

Katsura Funakoshi Print Works, Suzaka Hanga Museum, Nagano
Katsura Funakoshi 2012 Seeing Eternity, The Menard Art Museum, Aichi

2014

ANDO GALLERY, Tokyo

1976

Exhibition of New Figurative Sculpture, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum (-'85)

1984

OYAMAーTowards a City with Sculpture, Hakuo Women's Junior College, Tochigi

1986

ART IN TOKYO '86 IMA, Factory, Tokyo
New Trends in Contemporary Sculpture―10 New Outstanding Sculptors of America and Japan, Contemporary Sculpture Center, Tokyo and Osaka; Sapporo Art Park; Salvatore Alla, New York (-'87)

1988

The XXXXIII Venice Biennale

1989

Against Nature: Japanese Art in the Eighties, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art et al (-'91)
XX Bienal de São Paulo

1990

Toyama Now '90, The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama
New Wave of Wood Sculptures, Hokkaido Asahikawa Museum of Art
Japanische Kunst der Achtziger Jahre, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany et al.

1991

A Current of Contemporary Art in JapanーSculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama

1992

Documenta Ⅸ, Kassel, Germany
The 9th Biennale of Sydney

1994

Contemporary Human Figure, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art

1995

Art in Japan Today 1985-1995, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Japanese Culture: The Fifty Postwar Years 1945-1995, Meguro Art Museum; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art; Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art; Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art

1996

Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, Museum Ludwig, Köln, Germany
Part 1―A Dialogue between Tools and Arts, The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura
Images of Women in Japanese Contemporary Art 1930's-90's, The Shoto Museum of Art, Tokyo

1998

Art Chicago 1998, Festival Hall, Navy Pier, Chicago ('00)

1999

Image of Sculpture, Asahikawa Museum of Sculpture in honor of Teijiro Nakahara, Hokkaido
Noontime Meditation: Contemporary Japanese Art having Inner Sight, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts
Destruction and Construction 1999, Chinretsukan Gallery, The University Art Museum, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
The Trends of the Nakahara Teijiro Prize, Asahikawa Museum of Sculpture in honor of Teijiro Nakahara, Hokkaido

2000

Skulpturen von Künstlern aus 4 Kontinenten, Der Pavillon des Heiligen Stuhls auf der Expo 2000, Hannover, Germany
Kaleidoscope of Time, Fukui City Art Museum
Shanghai Biennale 2000, Shanghai Art Museum

2001

Art for the Spirit: Eyes Searching for Eternity, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art
Contemporary Art after 1980, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art
Between Earth and Heaven: New Classical Movements in the Art of Today, The Ostend Museum of Modern Art, Belgium

2002

Sculptors of Eastern Japan, Tokyo Station Gallery

2003

Yasutake Funakoshi and His Family - from the Collections of People in Morioka, Morioka Takuboku and Kenji Museum
The Presents from the Artists, Niigata City Art Museum et al (-'04)

2004

Art in Wood, Gunma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi

2005

Asian Potential: Art Nursed by Sea and Islands, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art

2007

Vital Signs: Reality of nine contemporary artists, Yokosuka Museum of Art

2008

Self / Other, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Kodaira Hirakushi Denchu Art Museum, Tokyo
DOMANI: The Art of Tomorrow 2008, The National Art Center, Tokyo

2009

Hundred Stories about Love, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa

2010

Perfect Gem of Art Forest, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo, Hokkaido
Alternative Humanities: Jan Fabre x Katsura Funakoshi, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa